A tractography study in dyslexia: Neuroanatomic correlates of orthographic, phonological and speech processing

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 935-948

  Vandermosten, Maaike ^a,b   Boets, Bart ^a,b   Poelmans, Hanne ^a,b   Sunaert, Stefan ^a   Wouters, Jan ^b   Ghesquière, Pol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

arcuate fasciculus; DTI fibre tracking; dyslexia; inferior fronto occipital fasciculus; reading network

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTO OCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TRACTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84857515739     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr363     Document Type: Article

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